Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

Love high-performance road bicycles? Our selection of road bikes is a mix of customs and classics, perfect for those of you who love speed, agility and precision handling — on tarmac.

Donhou Bicycles Don Player Special

During the late 70s and early 80s, abhorrent as it seems these days, cigarette sponsorship of Formula One teams, and their vibrant colorways, added to…

Winter Bicycles Calypte

Yesterday, while I was scrolling through my flickr feed, I was struck by an image of a very obviously proud new bike owner. It was…

Velo City: Bicycle Culture and City Life

No. 22 Bicycle Company

Golden Saddle Cyclery‘s hard man and all-round good guy, Tytanium, is currently riding the Tour Divide, a 2,745 mile self-supported ‘race’ from Canada to Mexico…

Brothers Rich Raleigh DL-1

The 2013 Tour de France is about to départ, sending a few hundred brightly colored riders on a 3,400 kilometer journey aboard the latest carbon…

Bishop Bikes Tommy’s Road

In the study of martial arts, the title of sensei literally translates as ‘one who was born before’ but doesn’t necessarily refer to physical age.…

Saffron Frameworks

The British custom frame building industry is very close to the heart of Saffron Frameworks‘ Matthew Sowter, and not only because he is British and…

Ricardo Elite: An Australian classic

My first real road bike was a Ricardo. After years of trouncing around the countryside on rigid GT mountain bikes and trying to translate that…

Land Shark Roadshark

The 19th stage of the 2013 Giro d’Italia, from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello, was canceled due to treacherous conditions, reminding us of Andy…

Leave It On The Road

If you list the Rapha blogs among your daily reads, or read Prolly Is Not Probably, you’ll have come across these two Speedvagen road bikes…

Moulinette x Hojmark ‘The Raw One’

The story behind Hojmark Cycles‘ brand identity recently made the rounds of the world’s great graphic design blogs, with good reason. Ineo Designlab, a Danish…

Victoire Véloce

Alongside Bridgestone, Michelin is one of the world’s two largest tire manufacturers. The French concern is not just focused on keeping the rubber side down,…

Colnago Tipo Roma

Yesterday, we were bewildered by the ‘Fauxnago’ Super Commuter by FYXO, which wasn’t all that it was made out to be. To get us back…

FYXO Fauxnago

As kids, we all encountered a Fauxnago or two in the neighbourhood, but this is the real deal. Sergio Fauxnago was employed at the Colnago…

Donhou Bicycles Flying Miler

What middle-aged male raised in the British Commonwealth wasn’t entranced by stories of the Blue Bird land speed racers, attempting to break the ‘Flying Mile’?…

Cinelli Supercorsa

The second round of the 2013 Red Hook Crit kicks off tomorrow and while we’re rooting for another win by a Stanridge Speed Highstreet Pursuit,…